This quantitative review explored the political skill construct and its predictive ability across a
number of organizational outcomes. First, we extended the Ferris et al. meta‐theoretical …

Organizational politics has been an oft-studied phenomenon for nearly four decades. Prior
reviews have described research in this stream as aligning with one of three categories …

Purpose Empirical tests of Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership theory (SLT) have
demonstrated that the assessment of follower competence and commitment, critical …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of interpersonal skills
(emotional and political skills) and work engagement on transformational leadership and …

Purpose The study aimed to develop a richer understanding of how employees perceive
organizational politics in contemporary organizational contexts, and to identify whether …

This paper reviews theoretical and empirical research on the use of political skill in
organizations and proposes some agendas for future research. Although political skill is a …

Three decades ago, the political skill construct was introduced to the organizational
sciences literature by Pfeffer (1981), advocating a political perspective on organizations …

Given the prevalence of precarious work in the social fabric of organizations, its negative
repercussions for employees and organizations, and the scarcity of research on how …

Social influence is one of the oldest and most researched constructs in organizational
behavior. Most research has examined the “what” and “who” of social influence behavior …

The authors integrate the entrepreneurship literature's sociological and behavioural
perspectives and examine the processes through which entrepreneurs first build social …